Burnt point

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Utican

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While grinding a new blade I managed to get the tip so hot it turned blue. I blame it on New gator belt :D. The blank is annealed 1080. Will this effect the strength of the tip post HT. I would appreciate your input fellas.
 
No it wont affect it at all after heat treat. People have to do normalizing on forged steel not because of the heat put on the blade, but the stress from the actual process. You can get it as hot as you want before heat treat.
 
While working on a pairing/petty knife for the kitchen, I was doing some of the final post HT grinding and wasn't paying enough attention. Even while dipping the blade very often in a water bucket, when working with thin stock 1/16th in addition to having a distal taper, the tip can overheat in a blink of an eye, literally. I burned the very tip, so I will be keeping this knife to test it out in my kitchen. Overall cutting edge should be perfectly fine, it's just the very end of the tip so I don't think it will have much effect on overall performance, but then again testing will be the determining factor.

Long story short, take your time and be over cautious post HT.
 
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